The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon. A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that ...
It was a century ago that Edwin Hubble himself established the fact that the faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon, Andromeda (or Messier 31 to give it its proper ...